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may direct us in that point of the judgment, in re 

 gard there is store of judgments of parliament, espe 

 cially under Edward I. and Edward IL in such con 

 ventions, as never had, for aught appears, any act 

 passed in them. 



Next, my lord, I conceive thus ; that by reason 

 there is no record of those judgments, it may he 

 justly thought, that they are of no force. For thus 

 it stands. The lower house exhibited the declara 

 tions in paper ; and the lords, receiving them, pro 

 ceeded to judgment verbally ; and the notes of their 

 judgments are taken by the clerk, in the journal 

 only ; which, as I think, is no record of itself ; neither 

 was it ever used as one. Now the record, that in 

 former times was of the judgments and proceedings 

 there, was in this form. The accusation was exhi 

 bited in parchment ; and being so received, and 

 indorsed, was the first record ; and that remained 

 filed among the bills of parliament, it being of itself 

 as the bills in the King s Bench. Then out of this 

 there was a formal judgment, with the accusation 

 entered into that roll, or second record, which the 

 clerk transcribes by ancient use, and sends into the 

 chancery. 



But in this case there are none of these : neither 

 doth any thing seem to help to make a record of it, 

 than only this, that the clerk may enter it, now after 

 the parliament ; which, I doubt, he cannot. Because, 

 although in other courts the clerks enter all, and 

 make their records after the term ; yet in this parlia 

 mentary proceeding it falls out, that the court being 



